i love the treasury. its a pretty well known fact amongst fellow crafty people. some of my mostfavorite people became my friends due to my love of making treasury lists and my obsession with putting them in my lists. so, last night i noticed the treasury was about to open up in about an hour. just enough time to put together a poster sketch.

exhibit a)

the treasury opened and i put all the items in, exactly like they appear above. then today i go to check on it and read the comments, like any obsessive treasury maker does and this is what i see:

exhibit b)

i know etsy edits treasury lists for the front page from time to time. i've had it happen to my lists. BUT while its still just sitting in the pool of treasury lists?!? even if someone at etsy admin picked this list for the front page - i've never had the editing happen before it hit the front page. i would understand editing the benfloeter shirt for the front page - the "kick ass" shirt however kick ass isn't exactly suitable for the front page. what i don't understand is why 4 more of the 12 sqaures that show have been moved. AND they swapped one sqaure from my alternates with the ones that show.

i put a lot of thought into what i choose for treasury lists. and i spend some time moving sqaures around until i think it looks perfect. by editing my list, its no longer my vision (of "newsprint" in this case), no longer "a few of my favorites."

i did a forum search to see what i could find. there was this "explanation" from marymary in this thread:

"Hey guys,

First of all, congrats on making the FP! It's true
sometimes admin will replace an item or items from a treasury that they
are evaluating for the front page. If the list is an overall cohesive
one but one or two items might not be the best fit for the front page,we will replace them for the front page display only rather than
skipping over the treasury in it's entirety.

We certainly don't
mean to step on any toes, and would much rather give credit to the
curator's list even if all of those items don't make it over to the
front page.

We try our best not to replace or change the state
of the original list and when linking from the front page, the list
will remain in it's original state just as you may have noticed with
your recently featured list.

We evaluate the alternates and may
replace and rearrange lists with those and other times, it may be the
case where a new item replaces the original for the front page list.

I hope this helps clear up any confusion and thanks for asking,

Mary"

no, that doesn't really clear it up and its now on the front page.

exhibit c)

yay for everyone in it. i wish it could've seen the front page in its original form.

there's an antique store that i've been shopping at since i was 15 or so. its magical. there's happy things covering every inch, a standard poodle named harpo, and the nicest/wackiest owners in the universe. so, we lost a few hours there today and i got a lot of gorgeous things to use for the shop. like this lovely...

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shana is a wearer of knee socks, lover of pie, horror movies and shiny things. she writes about horror and other things, makes pie and shiny things in portland, oregon, where she lives with her husband, shawn (aka shampton). she is the vintage jewelry and yoyo obsessed woman behind the cookoorikoo curtain. email me at cookoorikoo@gmail.com.